[WBEL-users] Building WBEL-compatible RPMs on Debian
Johnny Hughes
mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Mon Jan 30 21:37:38 CST 2006
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 20:05 -0600, Daniel J. Summers wrote:
> I've been doing some looking around, and I think I've decided to try
> Debian on my laptop once I get it back from being serviced. However, I
> currently host xine RPMs built using WBEL that work with
> RHEL/WBEL/CentOS/etc. To make these, I download the "new" xine source
> tarball, then execute the command
>
> rpmbuild -ta [name_of_tarball]
>
> I then FTP the resulting RPMs up to my website and update the download
> links. Would rpmbuild run under a Debian distro? Assuming I was using
> an x86_64 version of Debian, would the resultant RPM still work the same
> on the EL clones as it does today?
>
No, not unless you installed all the RPMS that are required to meet the
dependencies on top of debian ... which would break it for sure :)
You might be able to do something like create a WBEL chroot and use that
to build some packages.
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